I’ve debated for weeks if I should make a post about the upcoming election season; certain days I felt certain I should, while others I thought maybe I should keep my mouth shut (they say never talk about politics or religion). However, this is my blog, and as an American, I have the right to discuss such things. So here goes:
Vote for Barack Obama. Please, if you care about our country and you want to make it through the next 4 years, vote for Obama.
Don’t get me wrong, I have always loved John McCain - in 2000, I was seriously cheering for him to win the Republican primary against Bush (however, at the age of 15 I was below the voting threshold). There is no doubt in my mind that our country would be in a much better place if McCain had been elected eight years ago; however, now is not the time to make up for such things.
Our country is a mess. Bush’s do-nothing attitude towards much of the goings-on in our country has put us in the worst spot we’ve been in since the great depression. I’m not even going to talk about the war; we all have our opinions about that. I am, however, going to complain about how our government has turned a blind eye to the banking system for the last 8 years. As the child of a career mortgage underwriter (my mom’s been in the business since ‘86) I remember hearing a lot about these ‘BC’ loans back around 2002-03. The mortgage business was booming at the time; all you needed to qualify for a near 100% financed mortgage was proof that you’ve had a successful renting history and a job. Bad credit? No credit? No problem!
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